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#################################################### Replication file for                            ## Using Conjoint Experiments to Distinguish       ## Masking from Lexicographic Preferences          ## Simon Calmar Andersen & Morten Hjortskov        ## Decmber 11, 2023                                 ####################################################

Download and open the compressed file "Masking Replication.zip".

All files needed for replication are contained in the R project file “Masking-Lexicographic Preferences Replication.Rproj”.

Our analyses builds on data from this publication:
Kirkland, Patricia A., and Alexander Coppock. 2018. Candidate choice without party labels. Political Behavior 40 (3): 571–591. issn: 0190-9320, 1573-6687, accessed March 23, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-017-9414-8 (https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/WSUHI3).
 
The data are kindly made publicly available by the authors on Harvard Dataverse. 

The R script file “masking_lexicographic_preferences_replication_script.R”, which is contained within the R project, loads the data from the article directly from its Harvard Dataverse reposit. For all documentation for these files, please see their data documentation (see links to their Harvard Dataverse reposit above).

In addition, our analyses builds on data that we collected. This data set, “candidateconj_masking.dta” is also contained within the R project (in the folder “Data”). Codebook for this data is in the file “Lexicographic_codebook.pdf”.
